Yoda and Darth Vader in Soul Calibur 4

[Smash_Brother]

I don't understand why people like this idea.

I could see this working if SC was intended to be a "crossover" series like SSB or KoF, but it isn't: it has its own storyline and its own unique cast of characters with different backgrounds.

So you like Star Wars and SC? That's great and all, but one of the reasons I used to like both Soul Caliber and Star Wars was the integrity of the storylines involved, and that includes the characters as well.

When you pull a stunt like this, you violate that integrity, and the game might as well just toss all this bullshit about the "two swords" out the window and admit that it's just a 3D KoF clone which focuses on weapon-based combat instead of hand to hand.

On the flipside, Star Wars, with what little integrity the story has left after Episodes 1-3, makes absolutely no sense in either involvement or timeline.

However, if there's one thing WoW has shown me, it's that writers will sodomize and murder their own story and characters if there's enough money involved and I can't help but see this as being exactly the case here. If necessary, they'll invent piles of bullshit reasons for why we're supposed to believe the canonically impossible is all of a sudden possible.

And what happens when a storyline is abandoned by its creators in favor of a cash-in like this? No one cares anymore. When nothing is consequential in the storyline and nothing coheres, it's no longer interesting. It's like when Highlander 2 tried to explain that there are still more Highlanders who "didn't count" at the time but they do now so the lead character didn't actually earn the "quickening" after all. Or like how, in DBZ, no one ever stays dead because they're wished back to life later. Or how every X-men member has "died" once or twice but always come back.

There's always a hardcore group who will pay attention regardless, but a lot of your audience will just stop caring.

If the creators don't even take their work seriously, why should I?

I'm sure Namco will profit in the short run by the sheer number of greasy Star Wars fans out there who will buy both versions of the game, but SC5 will have to one up this one by doing something like bringing in Wolverine, Optimus Prime and Predator, otherwise it won't have the same impact and will be perceived as boring.

Like I said earlier, the shark has been jumped.